Goode denies involvement with gay art house film

[Blue_Tires]

Source: The Daily Progress (Charlottesville, VA)

U.S. Rep. Virgil H. Goode Jr., R-Rocky Mount, said on Wednesday that he had nothing to do with a 2003 art house film that depicts gay sex, violent beatings and drug use.

“I never gave any money to that film. Wouldn’t do it,” Goode said. “Haven’t even seen it. Wouldn’t see it.”
In a bizarre twist to Goode’s re-election bid against challenger Democrat Tom Perriello, news rocketed across Virginia’s blogosphere on Wednesday that Goode and his wife, Lucy, are thanked in the closing credits of “Eden’s Curve,” a gay coming-of-age film that was inspired by a true story that occurred in Danville during the 1970s.
“This is a smear tactic,” said Jerry Meadors, the Danville native who wrote and produced “Eden’s Curve.” “It’s inappropriate journalism. It’s almost anti-gay on the part of the press, as far as I’m concerned.”

The film is about a young man who goes off to an all-male college and begins to explore his sexuality, eventually engaging in a ménage a trois with his roommate and his roommate’s girlfriend. Afterward, the roommate becomes jealous and savagely beats the protagonist. A poetry professor takes in the injured main character and they begin a sexual relationship of their own. Once their affair is made public, however, the student leaves school and the professor commits suicide.



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Goode is one of those country-fried, fundie, 'god, guns and kill the queers' repubs that is up for re-election...This won't go down with his white-sheet base...

[gratuitous]

1. Seems like an outsize reaction

I don't know, it's difficult to say from just the story, but the vehemence of the denials seems a bit out of proportion to the rumor. Seems that a simple review of the DVD would prove the rumor either true or false. If it's true that Goode is thanked in the closing credits, what's the big deal? Shrug it off.

[NoodleyAppendage]

2. A "coming of age" story. Please tell me that this is fiction...

...because as we all know gays "come of age" actually when they engage in 4-partner group sex and not 3-partner activity and generally their "coming of age" involves the suicide of a trusted priest. Jeesh.

j

[nilram]

5. hmm, maybe he's really bi...

[booley]

7. well they could have based it on my coming out

Sister-By the way. Are you gay and is Jeff your Boyfriend?

Me-Yes.

Roll Credits.

Hmmm, were you really expecting realism in a movie? Especially in a pretentous art house film? Because I have this bridge I want to sell.

On an unrelated note, I will also advise that tif you do group sex beyond three, always use an equal number.

[Ian David]

3. I think every gay movie ever made should list Rick Santorum in the credits from now on. n/t

[sasquatch]

4. Oh Virgil!

YOU'RE SO DEEP INTO THE CLOSET THAT YOU'RE FINDING CHRISTMAS GIFTS!!
:P

[Blue_Tires]

6. ttt n/t